Ava Gardner

Acting

December 24, 1922

— January 25, 1990(67 years old)

Grabtown, North Carolina, USA

Popularity: 1

Biography

Ava Lavinia Gardner (December 24, 1922 – January 25, 1990) was an American actress popular in the 1940s and 1950s. Considered one of the most iconic stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood, she was ranked as the 25th greatest female screen legend by the American Film Institute. Initially cast in minor roles, her breakthrough came with the classic film noir The Killers (1946), which established her as a leading lady. Her career flourished in the 1950s with notable performances in films like Mogambo (1953), for which she received an Academy Award nomination, The Barefoot Contessa (1954), and The...

Also Known As

Ava Lavinia Gardner • A. Gardner • Ава Гарднер • 에바 가드너 • エヴァ・ガードナー

Known For

6.8

Knots Landing

Ruth Sumner Galveston

4.5

Intimate Portrait

Self

7.0

What's My Line?

Self

7.5

Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields

Self (archive footage)

5.1

A.D.

Agrippina

7.3

The Bible: In the Beginning...

Sarah

6.1

Earthquake

Remy Royce-Graff

7.3

The Killers

Kitty Collins

6.7

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

(in "The Killers" / "The Bribe") (archive footage)

6.2

The Cassandra Crossing

Nicole Dressler

5.9

John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick

Self (archive footage)

6.7

On the Beach

Moira Davidson

Photos of Ava Gardner

Filmography

2020s

7.7

Kennedy, Sinatra and the Mafia

Self (archive footage)

9.0

Rat Pack

Self (archive footage)

Beautiful Like a Poem

Self (archive footage)

2010s

6.0

Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood

Self (archive footage)

6.9

Ava Gardner, the Gypsy of Hollywood

Self (archive footage)

6.9

Chavela

Self (archive footage)

5.8

Ava Gardner: Life Is Bigger Than the Movies

Self (archive footage)

7.0

Fallout

Self (archive footage)

6.6

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

Pandora Reynolds / Maria Vargas (archive footage)

6.7

All Night Long

Self (archive footage)

2000s

Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1950s: The Golden Era of the Musical

Self (archive)

6.0

De Madrid a la Luna

Self (archive footage)

Året var 1953

Self (archive footage)

Frank Sinatra glömde aldrig Finspång

Self (archive footage)

1990s

7.7

Frank Sinatra: The Voice of the Century

Self (archive footage)

7.0

That's Entertainment! III

(archive footage)

Legends of the West

Lily Langtry in 'The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean' (archive footage) (uncredited)

1980s

5.9

John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick

Self (archive footage)

5.0

Harem

Kadin

6.7

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

(in "The Killers" / "The Bribe") (archive footage)

Regina Roma

Mama

4.8

Priest of Love

Mabel Dodge Luhan

4.6

The Kidnapping of the President

Beth Richards

1970s

5.0

City on Fire

Maggie Grayson

6.1

The Sentinel

Helen Logan

6.2

The Cassandra Crossing

Nicole Dressler

5.3

The Blue Bird

Luxury

5.6

Permission to Kill

Katina Petersen

6.1

Earthquake

Remy Royce-Graff

7.4

That's Entertainment!

(archive footage)

6.5

The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean

Lily Langtry

4.9

The Ballad of Tam Lin

Michaela Cazaret

1960s

6.2

Mayerling

Empress Elisabeth of Austria

7.3

The Bible: In the Beginning...

Sarah

7.3

Seven Days in May

Eleanor Holbrook

7.2

The Night of the Iguana

Maxine Faulk

6.0

On the Trail of the Iguana

Self

6.9

55 Days at Peking

Baroness Natalie Ivanoff

7.0

La Rabbia

Self (archive footage)

4.8

The Angel Wore Red

Soledad

1950s

6.7

On the Beach

Moira Davidson

6.1

The Naked Maja

Maria Teresa, duchess of Alba, nicknamed Cayetana

5.7

The Sun Also Rises

Lady Brett Ashley

6.3

The Little Hut

Lady Susan Ashlow

5.9

Bhowani Junction

Victoria Jones

6.8

The Barefoot Contessa

Maria Vargas

7.2

The Band Wagon

Ava Gardner (uncredited)

6.4

Mogambo

Eloise Y. Kelly

6.0

Knights of the Round Table

Guinevere

6.0

Ride, Vaquero!

Cordelia Cameron

5.9

The Snows of Kilimanjaro

Cynthia Green

5.6

Lone Star

Martha Ronda

6.2

Show Boat

Julie LaVerne

6.7

Pandora and the Flying Dutchman

Pandora Reynolds

5.5

My Forbidden Past

Barbara Beaurevel

The Costume Designer

Self (archive footage)

1940s

6.6

The Great Sinner

Pauline Ostrovsky

6.2

The Bribe

Elizabeth Hintten

7.0

East Side, West Side

Isabel Lorrison

6.7

One Touch of Venus

Venus

6.9

The Hucksters

Jean Ogilvie

5.9

Singapore

Linda Grahame / Ann Van Leyden

7.3

The Killers

Kitty Collins

4.3

Whistle Stop

Mary

5.5

She Went to the Races

Hilda Spotts

I'm a Civilian Here Myself

Dream Girl (uncredited)

6.0

Twenty Years After

(archive footage)

5.7

Two Girls and a Sailor

Dream Girl (uncredited)

3.9

Blonde Fever

Minor Role (uncredited)

6.2

Maisie Goes to Reno

Gloria Fullerton

6.0

3 Men in White

Jean Brown

6.4

Du Barry Was a Lady

Perfume Girl (uncredited)

5.0

Swing Fever

Receptionist (uncredited)

4.2

Ghosts on the Loose

Betty

5.3

Hitler's Madman

Franciska Pritric (uncredited)

7.9

Lost Angel

Hat Check Girl (uncredited)

4.6

Young Ideas

Co-ed (uncredited)

6.4

Reunion in France

Marie, Parisian shopgirl (uncredited)

6.2

Joe Smith, American

Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)

6.2

Kid Glove Killer

Car Hop (uncredited)

6.5

Calling Dr. Gillespie

Student (uncredited)

6.0

This Time for Keeps

Girl in Car Lighting Cigarette (uncredited)

5.0

Sunday Punch

Ringsider (uncredited)

6.0

Mighty Lak a Goat

Girl at Theatre Boxoffice

We Do It Because

Lucretia Borgia (uncredited)

7.1

H.M. Pulham, Esq.

Young Socialite (uncredited)

7.0

Shadow of the Thin Man

Passerby at Racetrack (uncredited)

5.0

Strange Testament

Waitress (uncredited)

4.0

Fancy Answers

Girl at Recital